/*[INCLUDE-IF JAVA_SPEC_VERSION >= 8]*/
/*
 * Copyright IBM Corp. and others 1998
 *
 * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under
 * the terms of the Eclipse Public License 2.0 which accompanies this
 * distribution and is available at https://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0/
 * or the Apache License, Version 2.0 which accompanies this distribution and
 * is available at https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
 *
 * This Source Code may also be made available under the following
 * Secondary Licenses when the conditions for such availability set
 * forth in the Eclipse Public License, v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU
 * General Public License, version 2 with the GNU Classpath
 * Exception [1] and GNU General Public License, version 2 with the
 * OpenJDK Assembly Exception [2].
 *
 * [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html
 * [2] https://openjdk.org/legal/assembly-exception.html
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-only WITH OpenJDK-assembly-exception-1.0
 */
package java.lang.ref;

/**
 * PhantomReference objects are used to detect referents which 
 * are no longer visible and are eligible to have their storage
 * reclaimed.
 *
 * @author		OTI
 * @version		initial
 * @since		JDK1.2
 */	
public
/*[IF JAVA_SPEC_VERSION >= 19]*/
non-sealed
/*[ENDIF] JAVA_SPEC_VERSION >= 19 */
class PhantomReference<T> extends Reference<T> {

/**
 * Return the referent of the reference object.  Phantom reference 
 * objects referents are inaccessible, and so null is returned.
 *
 * @return		Object
 *					Returns null.
 */	
public T get() {
	return null;
}

/**
 * Constructs a new instance of this class.
 *
 * @param		r
 *					referent to track.
 * @param		q
 *					queue to register to the reference object with.
 */	
public PhantomReference(T r, ReferenceQueue<? super T> q) {
	initReference(r, q);
}
}
